mobile search

Google has recently added a few tweaks for mobile web searches. These tweaks deal with speed and include an option for "In Theaters" and also for "Quick View." Both of these items should help to cut down on the time you spend searching for select items, however the Quick View option is only available on a limited basis at the moment.

The popular desktop "quick view" feature for Google search results appears to be headed to mobile in the near future. Google seems to be testing out this new quick view feature, at least on iOS, where users can instantly get a quick view of the webpage without loading the full site -- and data. It's called quick view and as you can see there's a big nice button on some mobile browsers.

A new computational search engine app called WolframAlpha is going to land in the Android Market today. The app has been available on other OS' previously. The Android version will sell for the same $1.99 that the iPhone version goes for.

Google’s mobile search page for Android just got a little closer to the desktop client. There is now a button to the left of the search results that allows quickly refine search results based on time frame or product type. The computer based search page has also been revamped.

Yahoo has made an official statement regarding AT&T's choice of their search engine as the default in the upcoming Motorola Backflip. As we all know the Backflip is an Android device, yet Google Search will not be including in AT&T’s version of MotoBlur.